# a) Confluent Kafka Installation

<https://docs.confluent.io/current/quickstart/ce-quickstart.html#ce-quickstart>

<https://www.confluent.io/download/>

\>Prerequiste : JDK needs to be installed

Donwload below package:

```
curl -O http://packages.confluent.io/archive/5.5/confluent-5.5.0-2.12.tar.gz
```

```
export CONFLUENT_HOME=<path-to-confluent>
export PATH=$PATH:$CONFLUENT_HOME/bin
confluent local services start
Navigate to the Control Center web interface at http://localhost:9021.

```

\>>Installation Kafka Connect Datagen connector Confluent client

```
confluent-hub install \
   --no-prompt confluentinc/kafka-connect-datagen:latest
```

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**KSQLDATAGEN to generate data:**

ksql-datagen schema=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/confluent-6.0.0/bin/riderequest-america.avro format=avro topic=riderequest-europe key=rideid maxInterval=5000 iterations=100

ksql-datagen schema=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/confluent-6.0.0/bin/riderequest-america.avro format=avro topic=riderequest-america key=rideid maxInterval=5000 iterations=100

Executing KSQL scripts in one go on KSQL server :

**RUN SCRIPT '/local/path/to/queries.sql';**

[**https://docs.ksqldb.io/en/latest/developer-guide/ksqldb-reference/run-script/**](https://docs.ksqldb.io/en/latest/developer-guide/ksqldb-reference/run-script/)


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